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Russian President Vladimir Putin Marks His Birthday

11:02 GMT, 7 October 2024
As he celebrates his 72nd birthday, Russian President Vladimir Putin will do so in a productive environment. He is set to welcome leaders to the Russian capital for the Council of Heads of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Throughout the day, he will also engage in several working meetings, according to his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.
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Members of the "Putin team" from the Popular Front, including military personnel, artists, athletes, and foreign students, have already extended their congratulations to the Russian head of state on his 72nd birthday.
Putin has also received well-wishes from foreign leaders. In 2023, he stated that he had celebrated his birthday with friends and family.
On the same day, he attended a ceremony marking the commencement of Russian gas supplies to Uzbekistan via Kazakhstan, where he hosted a lunch for the leaders of those countries, respectively, Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Kasym-Jomart Tokayev.
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President Putin participates in at a meeting of heads of delegations participating in the Russia-ASEAN Summit in Sochi, 2016.

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President Putin and Chinese Leader Xi Jinping conducts the Russian-Chinese talks in Moscow

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President Putin is about to dive and inspect the Shch-308 'Semga' submarine, sunk during World War II at the bottom of the Gulf of Finland, in 2019.

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President Putin and then Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a rest in the taiga.

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In 2023 Putin was on a working visit to the Dagestan region and Raisat Akipova really wanted to see the president, but could not. Later Putin invited her to the Kremlin.

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President Putin and President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam To Lam take part in the official meeting ceremony outside the Presidential Palace in Vietnam's capital in 2024.

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Putin joins the judo training session in Yug-Sport Training Centre in Sochi, 2019.

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President Putin inspects the cockpit of an upgraded Tu-160M strategic missile carrier in 2024. Footage provided by the Kremlin press-service.

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Vladimir Putin explores the exhibition during his visit to the Chinses Harbin Institute of Technology in 2024.

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President Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan eating ice-cream as they attend the MAKS-2019 international airshow.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko are riding snowmobiles in Sochi, 2021.

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Vladimir Putin holds meeting with volunteer ornithologists of the Kamchatka falconry center in 2022.

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President Putin participates in the opening ceremony of the City Day on Red Square in Moscow.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chairman of State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong un during a state reception in Vladimir Putin's honor at the Monnangwan Reception House.

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President Putin flights to the Hmeimim airbase in Syria in the presidential aircraft.

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President Putin has just signed agreements on the accession of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions to the Russian Federation in the St George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.

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Vladimir Putin plays the piano at a charity concert at the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg.

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President Putin participates in a plenary session of the Second Summit and Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in 2023.

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Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin before the inauguration ceremony at the Kremlin in 2024.

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